The near-field gap effects are investigated in planar dielectric microdisc and waveguide coupling structures, emphasizing miniaturization of integrated sensor systems. The simulation results show that the resonance frequency is not obviously affected by the gap dimension when the gap between a microcavity and its coupler is larger than 300 nm. However, the resonance frequency shifts observably ...

Serum provides a rich source of potential biomarker proteoforms. One of the major obstacles in analysing serum proteomes is detecting lower abundance proteins owing to the presence of hyper-abundant species (e.g., serum albumin and immunoglobulins). Although depletion methods have been used to address this, these can lead to the concomitant removal of non-targeted protein species, and thus rais...

This pap er present s a theory of convergence for realcoded genet ic algorit hmsGAs that use float ing-point or oth er highcardinality codings in their chromosomes . The theory is consistent with th e theory of schemata and postulates tha t select ion domin ates early GA perform ance and restri cts subsequent search to int ervals with above-average fun ction values, dimension-by-dimension. Thes...

one of the main concerns of the mining industry is to determine ultimate pit limits. final pit is a collection of blocks, which can be removed with maximum profit while following restrictions on the slope of the mine’s walls. the size, location and final shape of an open-pit are very important in designing the location of waste dumps, stockpiles, processing plants, access roads and other surfac...

We introduce and study a network resource management problem that is a special case of nonmetric k-median, naturally arising in cross platform scheduling and cloud computing. In the continuous d-dimensional container selection problem, we are given a set C ⊂ R of input points, for some d ≥ 2, and a budget k. An input point p can be assigned to a “container point” c only if c dominates p in ever...

 In this paper, a new homological dimension of modules, copresented dimension, is defined. We study some basic properties of this homological dimension. Some ring extensions are considered, too. For instance, we prove that if $Sgeq R$ is a finite normalizing extension and $S_R$ is a projective module, then for each right $S$-module $M_S$, the copresented dimension of $M_S$ does not exceed the c...

Tissue clarification has been recently proposed to allow deep tissue imaging without light scattering. The clarification parameters are somewhat arbitrary and dependent on tissue type, source and dimension: every laboratory has its own protocol, but a quantitative approach to determine the optimum clearing time is still lacking. Since the use of transgenic mouse lines that express fluorescent p...

We consider completely invariant subsets A of weakly expanding piecewise monotonic transformations T on [0, 1]. It is shown that the upper box dimension of A is bounded by the minimum tA of all parameters t for which a t-conformal measure with support A exists. In particular, this implies equality of box dimension and Hausdorff dimension of A.